Quotes by Generations It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now that from which generation proceeds is matter, and that to which it proceeds is form. So that, if matter or form were generated, there would be a matter for matter and a form for form, endlessly. Whence, there is generation only of the composite, properly speaking. Thomas Aquinas generationswould-bescience Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old. Terry Pratchett siblingfuneralgenerations It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations. Thomas Goodwin generationsshould-havepromise Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method. Theodore Roosevelt minoritiesgenerationspurpose A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics. Thomas Friedman sacredgenerationsparty Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after. Theodore Roosevelt generationscareerslying The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one. Thomas Leonard generationsuniquediscovery No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence. Thomas Jefferson debtgenerationsmoney The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. Thomas Huxley generationsoceanland Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality. Thomas Ruff generationsphotographreality No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation. Thomas Jefferson generationsearthanimal Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Thomas Paine vanitygenerationsage Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. Thomas Sowell generationstoo-latecivilization Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]? Thomas S. Monson pioneersgenerationspurpose It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent. Thomas Paine succeedgenerationslaw We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children. T.I. generationschildrenway If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent. Thomas Paine succeedgenerationsdoe Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself. Thomas Paine generationsage Every person in every generation has a choice: to obey God or to do his own thing. Tim LaHaye generationschoicespersons I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation. Timbaland waynegenerationslooks«7778798081828384858687»
